The only editing was to put page breaks in at suitable places. Regular wallet or purse and easily into a smartphone case next to the smartphone, the 32 pages are quite thin. Size A8 is slightly smaller than a credit card, so that this 32 page broschure can fit into a Update 29/2 : And here is the "pocket guide" as it arrived from the printer today. I'm now waiting for the hard copy to arrive in the mail :-) If that works out OK, I may try generating a larger book in black and white, then if that's OK, a motorcyclist' travel guide
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Text-to-print toolkit formatting it to get a 32 page broschure of size A8 (=a pocket guide) and sent it to a printer who prints one copy for free to see if you like his work. The projects included a small poetry collection (good luck with that), a biography, a children's fantasy tale, a management consultant's handbook etc.Įxperimenting with the toolkits recommended, I took a 3-page article from my website and "poured" it almost unchanged(!) into a I was the only person attending who had already had books published, the Who took the course and what are their projects? 11 people, only 3 men but 8 ladies. There followed a bunch of tips about marketing (selfpublishers have to do their own selling!) with a number of links to relevant literature. Linotype (for buying the fonts you use, she recommended Garamond etc), and an onlineĪs far as E-books are concerned, she linked us to Neobooks and recommended both Calibre and Papyrus as tools. She linked us to a printing house portal for getting competing printing offers, For those wanting to produce paper books, Getting into the world of tools and service providers, she showed us Tredition,
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The course was very useful and covered a lot of ground : Pro and Contra self-publishing, Links to the German bookdealers' reference database etc,Ĭopyright law, Taxation, Pricing, getting an ISBN number, (social) networking amongst self-publishers e.g. Writes an employability blog aimed at liberal arts academics who otherwise find it a problem getting a job :-( Practising what she preaches, she has her own small publishing house Eire Verlag and The course was in German, as were all the links and most references and tools, so this write-up is really for my German readers. The teacher was Dr.Mareike Menne, a lecturer in history from the local university. I liked the idea of such a compact course and so coughed up the 60€ and went along last saturday. The HNF recently offered a one day course in self-publishing, the end product being either an E-book or a traditional paper book. A course in self-publishing As bloggers, we self-publish, but online (only?).
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